detecting keyboard layout is cutoff on small screens 800x600

[Lyn Perrine]

To reproduce boot the lubuntu desktop i386 iso in kvm vm with vmvga graphics as the backend emulated hardware or anything else with a 800x600 screen selecting isntall from the boot menu and go through the keyboard layout will show the ok button to install will be cut off and you have to move the installer window partially off the screen to press ok.

I expected the installer to show on the screen. Instead I would have to move the window. Also I am running this vm on a base of vivid lubuntu host. I also don't have a way when selecting install from the menu to open up lxrandr to chache to the higher resolutions supported by vmvga in the installer.

ubiquity:
  Installed: 2.21.25
  Candidate: 2.21.25
  Version table:
 *** 2.21.25 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Description: Ubuntu Wily Werewolf (development branch)
Release: 15.10

I expected the installer to show on the screen or start in a mode where it could install in virt manager without being off the screen with vmvga graphics. Instead it was cut off of the screen and I will attach a screenshot from my host.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: ubiquity 2.21.25
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-18.18-generic 3.19.6
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-18-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.17.3-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.360
Date: Fri May 22 13:08:11 2015
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/lubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Alpha i386 (20150522)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1458039

[Jb (jebsolutions)]

This is still broken in the pre-release of Lubuntu 16.04.02 dated 2017-January-09.

The width of the right column in the screen is wider than it needs to be. If this column could be shrunk down (or set to stretchy-self-size) then I think the screen would fit properly.

There's a worse but related problem here...if you click on the title bar and drag the window to the right you will see it has maximize and minimize buttons.

The maximize button does nothing.

Unfortunately, the minimize button completely hides the window. There's no taskbar or minimized version of the window. So you are stuck at a blank desktop with no obvious way to get back to the install. :)

[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. If you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running only once:
apport-collect 1458039

and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.